- The following is a guided project that will help you understand the git work flow that we use in Lambda Labs.
- Throughout your Lambda School experience thus far you have learned how to work with Git/GitHub and have had practice using the basic commands for staging, committing, pushing, and publishing your commits to a fork. Learning now, the rest of what you need in order to work as a productive member of a product organization will set you up for success not only in labs, but give you insight into what how the product teams work in the real world.
- Knowing a team work flow using Git/GitHub is absolutely vital for you to succeed as a tech professional. That is the purpose of this exercise.
- By the end of this guided project you will have demonstrated the following:
- You will be able to create a branch off of the main branch of a repository.
- You will be able to submit a pull-request from your feature branch onto the main branch.
- You will be able to merge the main branch onto your feature branch.
- You will be able to resolve any merge conflicts that come up.
- You will be able to delete a feature branch.
The following is a list of steps and instructions on how to complete this guided project.
- Step 1️⃣: Clone this repository by clicking the green Clone or Download button in the top right.
- Step 2️⃣: CD into the repository and create a branch off of the main branch.
- Name the branch "feature/add-name"
git checkout -b 'feature/add-name - note: this is the naming convention you will use in Lambda Labs.
- Once the branch is created run
git branchto ensure that you've switched to the new branch. (You should be in the habit of doing this by the end of your first week in labs).
- Name the branch "feature/add-name"
- Step 3️⃣: Now that you have created your branch you're ready to work on the repo. Our task for the day is to have you add your name to the list below (note the semantically chosen branch name you created coincides with the task at hand) the
### Your nameheading in this README.md file. - Step 4️⃣: Run your typical staging, commit and publish commands:
git status,git add <file-name>,git commit -m 'your message',git push origin <branch-name>.- 💥note: you're pushing to your branch NOT to the main branch. (!!VERY IMPORTANT!!)💥
- Step 5️⃣: Pull down the main branch onto your branch. The easiest way to do this is to simply run
git pull origin mainbut make sure you're on your branch firstgit branch. - Step 6️⃣: Resolve any merge conflicts.
- You may see a merge conflict that looks something like this:
- To resolve this, you need to go into that file (could be many files depending on how well you and your team are communicating) and remove the
<<<<<<< HEAD -stuff- ======= -stuff- >>>>>>> commit idcode and decide which lines of code to remove/keep. 💡Pro Tip: Once you've done this a few times manually, VSCode has an amazing built in Merge Conflict extension that will step you through the process.- Repeat step 4️⃣: At this point you have a dirty commit history once again and you need to run your typical staging, commit and publish commands but update your message to say something about 'resolving merge conflicts'.
- You may see a merge conflict that looks something like this:
- Step 7️⃣: Open up your Pull-request. Now that you've resolved merge conflict and you're sure that your feature branch is up to date with main open up a pull-request:
- Be sure to add reviewers and follow the Pull-request template. (You will be getting trained/critiqued on pull-requests later on)
